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General Motors is considering keeping GM Europe rather than selling it. This came after the German government pressed for Canadian auto parts maker Magna, backed...

‘IT WOULD be foolish to pre-announce’ a date for an interest rate increase, the Bank of England’s deputy governor for monetary policy Ben Broadbent...

USING fast-track procedures, the Greek government SYRIZA (Coalition of Radical Left) leader Alexis Tsipras is pushing through the Vouli (Greek parliament) today the...

THIRTY locked-out Gate Gourmet workers gathered at the TGWU union office in Hillingdon yesterday, angry that they were not being given their hardship money...

SOARING milk, cheese and egg costs have pushed food inflation to its highest level for 14 years, with millions of UK families heading into...

‘UNITE must call national strike action now to stop the jobs bloodbath at Heathrow Airport,’ British Airways ground staff worker Jamil Singh told News...

THE NATIONAL Education Union (NEU) has announced that its members in England will take two further days of strike action this term – on...

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday announced a week of action against the closure of Post Offices. The week of campaigning by the ‘Future for...

THE FIRST Reading of a Bill calling for ‘an independent public inquiry into the UK co-operation with Israel since October 2023’ was passed unopposed...

Yesterday morning over 100 ambulance crew turned out to lobby the board of the South London Healthcare NHS Trust to warn them to stop...

‘We are grateful to the union for their support today, but we have to say “We are not here for the hell of it”...

‘THE government plans the biggest real-term cuts in school funding since at least the late 1970s,’ warns the National Union of Teachers. The NUT has...

FOR the first time since massive regular protests began in January, the French government has held discussions with union leaders regarding the two year...

There will be more job losses at British Airways as a result of the airline’s agreed merger with Iberia, BA chief executive Willie Walsh...

TORY Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock outlined the new White Paper in Parliament yesterday pushing a complete reorganisation of the NHS, breaking...

SINCE 7 October 2023, Israeli airstrikes have emerged as the leading cause of death for humanitarian workers globally, responsible for over 75 per cent...

America’s central banker, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, has warned that the US economy is ‘not out of the woods yet’. In a speech delivered...

ARRESTS were made as over 100 people protested outside the Home Office in Marsham Street, Westminster in central London yesterday in support of the...

THE Bank of England yesterday raised its interest rate from 4.5% to 5%, the highest level for 15 years, in a declaration of war...

THE Care Quality Commission has warned all private ambulance providers that, during its inspections, it found ‘problems with the safety’ of the care they...

AT 10:36 yesterday morning PM May announced that she will resign as PM on June 7. She said: ‘I have agreed with the Party Chairman...

THE Prime Minister was savaged at his monthly press conference yesterday after the emergence of the ‘donations for peerages’ scandal and the fact that...

MONDAY’S launch of the daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital, in preparation to occupy the departments threatened with closure, was a roaring success. The...

THE Libyan government’s Information Minister Moussa Ibrahim has scornfully rejected a ‘rebel’ ultimatum to surrender or face an all-out military assault on the city...

‘SIR Graham Brady has confirmed that he has received 48 letters from Conservative MPs so there will now be a vote of confidence in...

NURSES and GPs in County Durham are being told to act as first responders ahead of ambulances as North-East paramedics struggle to cope with...

THE ISRAELI military yesterday launched a large-scale exercise, involving ground forces, naval vessels and aircraft, simulating a war against Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement. The multi-day...

THOUSANDS of Sudanese workers and students are marching in London today demanding an end to the war in Sudan. In a statement, ‘London for Sudan’...

STUDENT nurses and midwives are lobbying parliament today in opposition to Tory plans to end the student bursaries by August 2017. And a national march...

‘MY BLOOD was boiling when I heard what he said,’ Patricia Marquis, Royal College of Nursing Director for England, said yesterday after Tory Cabinet...

UNEMPLOYED youth will be forced to work unpaid for three months before they can claim benefits under plans announced by London Mayor Johnson and...

UP TO one hundred trade unionists, disabled campaigners and their supporters demonstrated yesterday outside Maximus, the company who have taken over the work-capability assessment,...

A FIERY and chaotic debate took place at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) on Labour’s health policy yesterday. At it the ARM representatives strongly...

GPs in Harrow are up in arms against plans to close down health centres and combine GP practices into large units, turning them...

GATE GOURMET locked out workers are winning great support in the London Region TGWU, and attended a meeting earlier this week. Locked out worker...

THE HEALTHCARE system in Gaza is ‘completely out of service and in a state of complete collapse’, Palestinian health ministry spokesman, Dr Ashraf al-Qudra,...

WHILE claiming that ‘a renewed recovery is now under way in the United Kingdom’, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said yesterday that interest...

THE Tories are proceeding with savage cuts to the NHS, with A&Es being scaled back or closed across the country. Just a few examples are...

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday began a legal challenge to government plans to privatise the NHS by abolishing the role of Primary...

‘The BMA has long voiced concerns about the Independent Sector Treatment Centre programme,’ a British Medical Association (BMA) spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was...

PCS CATERING workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark were in confident mood on the third...

RAIL unions yesterday slammed Tory plans to illegalise rail strikes. Page 60 of the Conservative Party general election manifesto says: ‘We will work with train...

‘This world capitalist crisis is opening up the door to socialist revolution to millions of working class people round the world.’ So said Workers Revolutionary...

‘THOSE who cannot afford to pay for a solicitor, and those who are denied legal aid, are suffering at the hands of the government’,...

A FIFTH of all small and medium-sized businesses in the UK are unlikely to get the cash they need to survive the next four...